Skype Is the Latest High-Profile Web Outage
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The last 24 hours have served as a reminder of just how precarious the strands that connect us to the internet can be.
is reporting that some its services have fallen over after a bug was found that’s preventing users from being seen as visible, rendering them incapable of making any voice or video calls.
The news comes just a few short hours after reported that an location in Virginia broke down, forcing some of the world’s most popular services, including , AirBnB and Viber, offline.
The Amazon outage has been mostly fixed by now, and Skype is pledging to get its own issues shorted post-haste, but if any rival video call providers wanted to take advantage of the situation, now would be the time.
The last 24 hours have served as a reminder of just how precarious the strands that connect us to the internet can be.
is reporting that some its services have fallen over after a bug was found that’s preventing users from being seen as visible, rendering them incapable of making any voice or video calls.
The news comes just a few short hours after reported that an location in Virginia broke down, forcing some of the world’s most popular services, including , AirBnB and Viber, offline.
The Amazon outage has been mostly fixed by now, and Skype is pledging to get its own issues shorted post-haste, but if any rival video call providers wanted to take advantage of the situation, now would be the time.
